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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2014
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN;
Avik Ghose, Kolkata, IN;
Arpan Pal, Kolkata, IN;
Anirban Dutta Choudhury, Kolkata, IN;
Vivek Chandel, Sriganganagar, IN;
Chirabrata Bhaumik, Kolkata, IN;
Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Kolkata, IN;
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Mumbai, IN;
Abstract
An indoor positioning system and method of localizing a person/object in an indoor environment by identifying the orientation and direction of a person/object to provide a true location of the person/object without navigation errors. The system comprises magnets disposed on a doorway to create a unique magnetic field; a wireless communication unit comprising a magnetometer sensor to sense perturbations in each of the unique magnetic fields in the event that the person/object with the wireless communication unit passes through the doorway, and generate corresponding signals; a processor receiving the signals and extracting data from the same; and a backend server wirelessly communicating with the wireless communication unit, the backend server processing the data sample received from the wireless communication unit to identify the opening and the wireless communication unit to localize the person/object.